Establishing Self‐Dopant Design Principles from Structure–Function Relationships in Self‐n‐Doped Perylene Diimide Organic Semiconductors (Adv. Mater. 42/2022)

• Published in: Advanced materials (Weinheim) Vol. 34; no. 42
• Main Authors: Powell, Daniel, Zhang, Xueqiao, Nwachukwu, Chideraa I., Miller, Edwin J., Hansen, Kameron R., Flannery, Laura, Ogle, Jonathan, Berzansky, Alex, Labram, John G., Roberts, Andrew G., Whittaker‐Brooks, Luisa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.10.2022; Wiley
• Subjects: Carrier density; Carrier mobility; charge‐carrier mobility; Chemistry; Current carriers; Diimide; Dopants; Doping; Materials Science; Miscibility; morphology; Organic semiconductors; Physics; Science & Technology - Other Topics; self‐doping; spin concentrations
• ISSN: 0935-9648; 1521-4095
• DOI: 10.1002/adma.202270292

Organic Semiconductors Self‐doping is an essential method of increasing carrier concentrations in organic electronics that eliminates the need to tailor host–dopant miscibility, a necessary step when employing extrinsic molecular dopants. In article number 2204656, Daniel Powell, Luisa Whittaker‐Brooks, and co‐workers investigate a series of self‐doped organic semiconductors to generate fundamental guidelines for determining the impact that steric encumbrance, counterion selection, and tether distances has on doping efficiency, stability, morphology, and charge‐carrier mobility.